Ethics - ✔✔ branch of philosophy that includes both a body of knowledge about the moral life and a process of reflection for determining what
... [Show More] persons ought to do or be, regarding this life.
Bioethics - ✔✔ branch of ethics that applies the knowledge and process of ethics to the examination of ethical problems in health care.
Moral Distress - ✔✔ an uncomfortable state of self when one is unable to act ethically
Mortality - ✔✔ shared and generational social norms about what constitutes as right or wrong conduct.
Values - ✔✔ beliefs about the worth or importance of what is right or esteemed.
Ethical Dilemma - ✔✔ a puzzling moral problem in which a person, group, or community can envision morally justified reasons for both taking and not taking a certain course of action.
Code of Ethics - ✔✔ are moral standards that delineate a professions values, goals, and obligations.
Utilitarianism - ✔✔ an ethical theory based on the weighing of morally significant outcomes or consequences regarding the overall maximizing of good and minimizing of harm for the greatest number of people.
Deontology - ✔✔ an ethical theory that bases moral obligation on duty and claims that actions are obligatory irrespective of the good or harmful consequences that they produce. Because humans are rational, they have absolute value. Therefore, persons should always be treated as ends in themselves and never as mere means.
Principalism - ✔✔ an approach to problem solving in bioethics that uses the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence and justice as the basis for organization and analysis.
Advocacy - ✔✔ the act of pleading for or supporting a course of action on behalf of a person, group, or community.
Ethical Decision Making - ✔✔ the component of ethics that focuses on the process of how ethical decisions are made.
Ethical Issues - ✔✔ The moral challenges facing us or our profession. In nursing one such challenge is how to prepare an adequate and competent workforce.
Consequentialism - ✔✔ The right action is the one that produces the greatest amount of good or the least amount of harm in a given situation.
Respect for Autonomy - ✔✔ require that individuals be permitted to choose those actions and goals that fulfill their life plans unless those choices result in harm to another.
Non-maleficence - ✔✔ Requires that we do no harm. It is impossible to avoid harm entirely but that we will seek out the least amount of harm as possible.
Beneficence - ✔✔ We have general obligations to perform those actions that maintain or enhance the dignity of other persons whenever those actions do not place an undue burden on health care providers.
Distributive Justice - ✔✔ There be a fair distribution of the benefits and burdens in society based on health care providers.
Communitarianism - ✔✔ The dominant themes are that individual rights need to be balanced with social responsibilities; focus is on virtue ethics, ethic of care and feminist ethics.
Virtue Ethics - ✔✔ Not concerned with action but instead asks, " What kind of person should I be?" The goal is to enable persons to flourish as human beings.
Feminist Ethics - ✔✔ Encompasses the tenets that women's thinking and moral experiences are important and should be taken into account in any fully developed moral theory and that the oppression of women is morally wrong.
Feminist - ✔✔ Women and Men who hold a worldview advocating economic, social, and political equality for women that is equivalent to that of men.
Foreign Born - ✔✔ Legal Immigrants, not citizens
Refugees - ✔✔ Persons seeking asylum and protection out of fear of prosecution.
Non Immigrants - ✔✔ People admitted to US for a limited time for a specific purpose, students, tourist, temp. workers, etc.
Unauthorized Immigrants - ✔✔ Crossed the border illegally or their legal permission to stay is expired.
Culture - ✔✔ set of beliefs. values, and assumptions about life that are widely held among a group of people and that are transmitted intergenerationally.
Race - ✔✔ social classification that relies on physical markers such as skin color to identify group membership.
Ethnicity - ✔✔ shared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals
Cultural competence - ✔✔ a combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practices, attitudes, and policies that allow nurses to use interpersonal communication, relationship skills, and behavioral flexibility to work effectively in cross cultural.
Cultural Awareness - ✔✔ refer to the self-examination and in depth exploration of one's own beliefs and values as they influence behavior.
Cultural Knowledge - ✔✔ refers to the process of searching for and obtaining a source educational understanding about culturally diverse groups.
Cultural Skill - ✔✔ Ability of nurses to effectively integrate cultural awareness [Show Less]